Doctors and Dancing

This weekend has been a great one!
Friday was my latest doctors visit and it went well. As you can see by the tracker up top I have now lost 71 pounds! I lost another 4.5 pounds the last month, that averages to over 10 pounds a month, and not only am I losing those pounds but they are staying away which means I am not losing, gaining, and re-losing the same 10 pounds! Also at the doctors I saw the nutritionalist they now have there she is an option for those of us patients prior to her being there but all his new patients have 6 months of visits with her. I decxided to go ahead and talk with see how I was doing and get some advice on an event I am training for ( more on the event later on). When all was said and done I got an A+ and a gold star from her! I am the first patient she has said that I don';t needto follow up with her unless I have a question I am doing great. I asked my doc if he saw my halo? I learned a couple of things from her. One was about a website, www.fitday.com , for doing food and activity journaling, kind of a neat site and it's free! I also learned a bit more about how much food I should be eating. Well, thats not exactly right, it wasn't so much portion sizes as it was nutrient amounts I should be aiming for. Like with protein it should be about 60gm daily. Which is where the food journal comes into play since they have foods and their nutrients listed even if I don't have a label to read I can come close to what I ate. I did get my fourth fill on Friday, after recieving the "lecture" on how 4.5 pounds was great weight loss and I will not be losing ten pounds every month. Which I know and told him that but I also knew I was not as restricted and wanted a bit more I think this one will be the last for a few months though. I now have a fill level of 3.1.
The only problem with getting a fill on Friday is it was the first day of a Single Adult conference that I helped plan and it meant that I would be on liquids on Friday and soft foods Saturday meaning no pot roast for me on Saturday! But I survived! Very nicely in fact. The conference was a pain at times to plan and I about thought it would never come together but it was a wonderful experience for everyone. The two keynote speakers were awesome! The workshops on Saturday werer terrific and the dances were fabulous! The theme was " And the Heaven declare the Glory of God". One of our presenters works for NASA and had a great power point presentation with Hubble Telescope photos that really while being technicle about the formation of stars showed the creation and the hand of God in it and our place in the universes. Another presenter whose title was "We are all His Handywork " talked about how we need to be as lumps of clay, diamonds and gold. All of which go through quite alot to become the things of beauty that they are when the master gets done with them. The get put through moving and shaping, pressure, heat and even some chipping and grinding to become what the master sees in them. But they all submit to the master's touch which is what we need to do He can see who and what we are we need to let Him shape us. There were other presentations but I was not able to attend them because of other conference duties but from what others told me they were also very good.
At the dances I danced and danced and danced. I was out there getting other people up to dance with me. There was a lady there who taught us all how to do the electric slide and then helped me a bit to learn to polka. Not that I am great or even good at it yet but, hey! I am learning! Friday night when I got home it was already hard to move but move I did! Saturday morning I may have been moving like a 200 year old but I was moving and by the dance that night was ready to boogie down again! Then on Sunday morning I got up and took my pup on a 2 mile walk as stiff as I was because the poor thing had been out but not a walk all weekend and she and I needed it!
I am tired and must get some sleep so I will post about "The Event" later on in the week. I am such a tease! :)